Photographer Reveals Unpublished Photos of RFK Killing

[Don Roberdeau]

Photographer Reveals Unpublished Photos of RFK Killing

Good Day....

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-2158598,00.html

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Scots photograher reveals pictures of Kennedy killing

Karin Goodwin

PREVIOUSLY unpublished photographs of the assassination of Robert
Kennedy, taken by Harry Benson, the renowned Scots photographer, are to
be unveiled in Edinburgh.
The series of eight pictures was shot by Benson at the Ambassador hotel
in Los Angeles on the evening the senator was gunned down by Sirhan
Sirhan, the Palestinian assassin.

Benson, who in his 50-year career has worked with eight presidents, was
at Kennedy's side in 1968 when he was shot three times after
celebrating victories in the Democratic primaries which paved the way
for him to be nominated as the party's presidential candidate.

Benson's first solo exhibition in Scotland, which will be displayed
at the National Portrait Gallery before transferring to the Smithsonian
Institute in the United States later this year, includes images of
Kennedy as he slumped to the ground, the senator's wife Ethel
screaming and the shocked crowd watching the assassination unfold.

"I was with Bobby Kennedy all evening," said Benson. "I saw the
man murdered right in front of me. People said, 'How could you lift
your camera, Harry?', but I felt I had to.

"As you can imagine, photographers weren't made welcome and I was
under a lot of duress, getting punched as I was taking the pictures. I
still wake up sometimes in the middle of the night and go over the
whole thing. I can hear Ethel screaming, 'I'm with you baby' over
and over again."

Sirhan, who is serving a life sentence, initially claimed he shot
Kennedy because of his public support for Israel. He later recanted,
claiming he had no memory of the killing. This fuelled conspiracy
theories similar to those surrounding the murder of his brother, John F
Kennedy, five years earlier.

According to some witnesses, a woman in a polka dot dress was seen
fleeing the hotel shouting jubilantly, "We shot him". One of the
images taken by Benson shows the back of a woman who seems to fit the
description.

Although Benson rejects the conspiracy theories, he called the FBI
twice to ask it to examine the picture, but his calls were never
returned.

Although two of his photographs were published in magazines across the
world, the rest have remained hidden in his vast archive.

The exhibition will include photographs of the Beatles and a portrait
of Michael Jackson.

James Holloway, director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery,
said: "It is exhilarating to see history through his eyes."

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Don

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The day after his brother's murder, Bobby Kennedy sought answers from
Harry Ruiz-Williams, a CIA agent staying at a CIA-operated safe house
used by Cuban exiles. Afterward, speaking with journalist Haynes
Johnson, Bobby said that he "suspected CIA-backed anti-Castro forces of
having been involved in his brother's death." He was later quoted as
telling one of the investigators from his Senate committee days: "Those
Cuban cunts are all working for the mob. They blame us for the Bay of
Pigs, and they're trying to make this look like a Castro-Communist hit.
I don't buy it. And I don't trust those guys at the CIA. They're worse
than the Mafia."

[Gary Combs]

Don,
Thanks for this little gem.

Gary

[j.raymon...@gmail.com]

"He was later quoted as telling one of the investigators from his
Senate committee days: "Those Cuban cunts are all working for the mob."

Don, can you identify the investigator in question?

[lazu...@webtv.net]

Couple of quick points-before the shooting Sirhan was seen with a couple
of"middle eastern men" who have never been identified-they possibly
could have been cuban or hispanic- in any event-the polka dot girl was
seen leaving shouting said 'we killed him" and was overheard by sandy
serrano on the stairs outside the Ambassador right after the shots, she
was browbeat to change her story by two officers who were CIA connected
& an older couple heard the polka dot girl say the same & reported this
to a policeman who put out an APB, which for untfathomable reasons
unless there was a conspiracy was immediately rescinded, she then
disappeared into the rabbit hole of history.